The SUSE coreutils-i18n.patch for GNU coreutils allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a long string to the sort command, when using the (1) -d or (2) -M switch, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html | Vendor Advisory |
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538 | Exploit Issue Tracking |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464 | Issue Tracking |
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19 | Exploit Patch |
Configurations
History
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Information
Published : 2013-11-23 18:55
Updated : 2024-02-04 18:16
NVD link : CVE-2013-0221
Mitre link : CVE-2013-0221
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2013-0221
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Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux
opensuse
- opensuse
CWE
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation